Posts Tagged Mick Fleetwood

Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie Atlantic/Rhino Records Add another chapter to best (and ongoing) rock’n’roll soap opera that is the versions and vestiges of Fleetwood Mac. This time it’s a duo/duets album between Buckingham and McVie.

Christine McVie believes it was her estranged husband John who made the call that the new record Fleetwood Mac was creating sounded like “a bunch of rumours”. And so, Rumours was what it was called. Rumours came into my life when I was about 11 years old; by that stage it had been out a decade […]

Stevie Nicks Bella Donna (Deluxe Edition) Rhino Entertainment Company It was an interesting time – and very creative – for Fleetwood Mac and its members post-Rumours. The popular narrative suggests they never bettered it, but they did something much better in a way, they diversified. Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood both made solo records in […]

The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band Opera House Friday, April 1 Just a few months after Fleetwood Mac wrapped a nearly two-year world tour, the band’s leader and spirit-animal, drummer Mick Fleetwood, is back on the road with his side-project dedicated to the original Mac’s blues years, the Peter Green-era. Though Mick Fleetwood is clearly the […]

Mick Fleetwood – one of my favourite drummers – formed The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band to pay tribute not only to the ‘blues years’ of the original Fleetwood Mac but also the music Fleetwood loves; the songs he grew up with. The current line-up features Rick Vito, a hell of a player – and former […]

I have been obsessed with Fleetwood Mac – all versions of the band – since I was about 10 years old. People like to focus on the early blues years now, a different band entirely. But I still love the FM-radio version of Fleetwood Mac. As the documentary Fleetwood Mac at 21 puts it, “they […]

We drove across, in convoy – two cars, to a house we rented for a weekend. Another couple of friends drove from a different direction and met us there. We had the Friday night in the house – a great place, much merriment – and then on the Saturday we had a wander around the […]

I’ll never understand why someone could tell you they don’t like Fleetwood Mac – and, anyway, which Fleetwood Mac are they talking about? The kick-ass blues band? The AOR supergroup? Those interesting years in the middle – the lesser-known, under-explored moments across the early 1970s where English R’n’B and American soft-rock was being combined to […]

John Mayall, The World of John Mayall (1970) I can’t claim to be any huge John Mayall fan but he’s interesting in being a person who stood and held the gate open, you always need someone like that. In saying I’m no huge fan I’ve certainly done my time listening to his music – my […]

Fleetwood Mac Rumours: 35th Anniversary Edition Warners The album remains a revelation to me – and it’s not even my favourite Fleetwood Mac record; I prefer Tusk and many of the pre-Buckingham/Nicks albums/line-ups. But I do love Rumours. And I have the feeling that even people who don’t (want to) like Rumours possibly own it, […]

Lindsey Buckingham, Law & Order (1981) What a time for Lindsey Buckingham – the early 1980s. An amazing run really – following his masterpiece, Tusk (almost a solo album) with this; his first official solo album – and then there was that movie soundtrack song and another Fleetwood Mac album which contained this gem among […]

Mick Fleetwood, The Visitor (1981) I bought this LP for $1 in a closing down sale. I’ve carried it between Wellington and Hawke’s Bay. And back. It’s lived with me in at least five homes and I sat and listened to it for the first time – properly – just the other day. I loved […]